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Newtown 911 Tapes Released
 Newtown 911 Tapes Released 
Dec 4, 2013 12:01 PM CST

Newtown 911 Tapes Released

Dispatchers are calm, ask about kids

(Newser) - Newtown officials today released the long-awaited—and controversial—recordings of the 911 calls that came in during the Sandy Hook shooting. Operators remain calm on the recordings, the AP reports, even as they seek help from state police and town officials. They urge the callers, who include a janitor and...

Yale Gunman Story Likely a Hoax: Cops

Caller said roommate intended to shoot people

(Newser) - Yale University has lifted its lockdown after police said an anonymous call about a gunman headed to campus was probably a hoax, reports the AP . "New Haven is safe. The Yale campus is safe," said New Haven's police chief. "Though it is starting to tilt in...

In Today's Sandy Hook Report: 'Disturbing' Details

State defends secrecy surrounding probe

(Newser) - After repeated delays and criticism of excessive secrecy, Connecticut prosecutors plan to release a report at 3pm today on the probe of last year's Newtown school massacre. The report, which comes almost a year after gunman Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six adults inside Sandy Hook Elementary School...

3 Students Shot Near Pittsburgh High School
3 Students Shot Near Pittsburgh High School
UPDATED
Nov 13, 2013 3:48 PM CST

3 Students Shot Near Pittsburgh High School

Injuries aren't life-threatening; police take 6 into custody

(Newser) - School officials say three male students were shot outside a Pittsburgh high school today, but their injuries don't appear to be life threatening. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that police took six people, including a child, in for questioning after surrounding a city house following the shooting. "We have...

Newtown Cop's PTSD Could Get Him Fired

Thomas Bean was a first responder

(Newser) - A Newtown, Conn., police officer on his day off was among the first to respond to the Sandy Hook school shooting—and he still can't escape the horrific memories. Thomas Bean has flashbacks and has considered suicide, he tells CNN : "That day killed me inside." He was...

Parents of Nevada Shooter, 12: He Kissed Us Every Day

Jose Reyes was a loving boy, his parents insist in first interview

(Newser) - When described by his parents, Jose Reyes doesn't sound like a killer: He kissed them every day, worked at the family restaurant and saved his money, then used it to buy dinner for his parents or presents for his two younger sisters. Yet the 12-year-old shot two students and...

Nevada School Shooter IDed
 Nevada School Shooter IDed 
UPDATED
Oct 25, 2013 5:04 AM CDT

Nevada School Shooter IDed

Name emerged in Univision report

(Newser) - The city of Sparks, Nevada, has released the name of the 12-year-old who killed a teacher and wounded two students in a school shooting: Jose Reyes. The city had previously refused to identify the boy, though the Reno Gazette-Journal asserted it should do so in accordance with state public records...

Parents May Face Charges in Nevada School Shooting

Police trying to figure out how boy got gun from home

(Newser) - The 12-year-old student who opened fire on a Nevada middle school campus yesterday, wounding two students and killing a teacher , got the weapon from his home, authorities said. Washoe County School District police said they are still working to determine how the boy obtained the 9mm semi-automatic Ruger handgun used...

Nevada Shooter a 'Nice Kid,' Got Bullied: Classmate

Hero teacher memorialized by thousands

(Newser) - Police still haven't released the name of the young shooter who wounded two 12-year-olds and killed a teacher at Sparks Middle School in Nevada yesterday before turning his parents' gun on himself, but a classmate describes him to CNN as "really a nice kid. He would make you...

'Hero' Teacher Killed in School Shooting Was Former Marine

Math teacher Michael Landsberry, 45, IDed as victim

(Newser) - The teacher killed in today's school shooting in Nevada has been identified by his family as Michael Landsberry, 45, a math teacher at Sparks Middle School who had previously served in the Marines. A local police deputy chief described Landsberry as a "hero" for intervening in the shooting...

Young Gunman Killed Teacher Who Tried to Stop Him

2 dead, 2 in critical condition after Sparks Middle School shooting

(Newser) - Two people are dead after a shooting at Sparks Middle School around 7:15am local time this morning. Nevada police say a young gunman killed a teacher who was trying to protect the other children; the shooter died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound, says Sparks' city manager. Two more people...

Ga. District's Defense Plan: Assault Rifles in Safes

Police introduced idea

(Newser) - A school district in northeast Georgia has a potential new plan against shootings: Schools would keep assault rifles in safes. One Colt carbine M4 rifle would be kept in each of three schools; the safes wouldn't unlock without the fingerprint of a school's resource officer, the Times of ...

Teen Says Shooting Plot Was 'Joke', Is Found Guilty

Sammie Chavez didn't convince the jury

(Newser) - A teenager who authorities say tried to recruit classmates for a mass shooting and bomb attack at his school in Bartlesville, Okla., has been convicted in a plot to kill students, teachers, and police officers. A jury found 19-year-old Sammie Eaglebear Chavez guilty of planning to cause bodily harm and...

A &#39;Good Guy With a Gun?&#39; No, With a Heart
Woman Who Stopped
Shooter Foils Stereotypes
OPINION
Aug 22, 2013 1:59 PM CDT

Woman Who Stopped Shooter Foils Stereotypes

Antoinette Tuff uses empathy, heart in Atlanta incident

(Newser) - The NRA may tell us that guns are our only defense against mass shooters, but on Tuesday Antoinette Tuff proved that's not true. "In this story, the only thing that stopped a bad guy with a gun was a good woman with a heart," writes Joan Walsh...

Listen to Ga. School Clerk's Heroic 911 Call

She talks down gunman with 'nothing to live for'

(Newser) - The 911 call in which a heroic school clerk successfully talks down a gunman armed with an AK-47 has been released by authorities in Georgia. In the 24-minute call, Antoinette Tuff can be heard telling operators, "He said he don’t care if he dies, he don’t have...

School Shooting Suspect Had 500 Rounds

Michael Brandon Hill previously threatened to kill brother

(Newser) - It could have been a disaster: Police say the 20-year-old arrested at an Atlanta-area school yesterday with an AK-47 had 500 rounds of ammunition with him, reports WSB-TV . Though Michael Brandon Hill fired a few shots at police, nobody was injured before his arrest in a school office. It also...

Elementary School Shooting Suspect an 'Average Guy'

Michael Brandon Hill, 20, named as alleged Georgia gunman

(Newser) - Neighbors of Michael Brandon Hill, the man who allegedly walked into a Georgia elementary school wielding an AK-47 and demanded to speak to a TV station, have familiar things to say about the suspect. Hill is "just an average guy," a man who lives across the street from...

Tough, Chatty Clerk Thwarted Ga. School Gunman

She kept him talking, persuaded him to put gun down

(Newser) - There could have been a bloodbath at an Atlanta-area elementary school yesterday were if not for the efforts of aptly-named school clerk Antoinette Tuff. When a man dressed in black sneaked into the school armed with an AK-47 and took Tuff and several other employees hostage, she kept him talking—...

Alleged Shooter in Custody at Ga. Elementary School

 Kids OK After 
 AK-47 Fired 
 at School 
UPDATED
Aug 20, 2013 4:12 PM CDT

Kids OK After AK-47 Fired at School

Suspect in custody near Atlanta

(Newser) - Welcome news after reports of shots fired today at a Georgia elementary school: “Shooter apprehended; all kids safe and accounted for,” the interim superintendent tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution . Police say a 20-year-old suspect is in custody. "He started to fire from inside the school at our officers,...

FBI Trains Cops to Deal With Mass Shooters

Local cops taught to face gunmen head on, alone if necessary

(Newser) - Two hostages stand at the classroom entrance and another lies seriously wounded outside. "Don't come down here, I'm telling you—I'll kill 'em," a man shouts to officers snaking down the corridor with guns drawn. Negotiations fizzle, the officers yell to the hostages to...

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